Watch Dan Cathy, CEO of Chick-fil-A, engage in an act of secular humiliation.
Cathy’s heart may be in the right place, but this isn’t an act of humility in the Christian tradition. It has more in common with the mob’s contemptible and often brutal denunciations in the heady days of Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Anyone seen as better off than someone else – “privileged” in today’s groupthink – was publicly abased, often with torture and/or death. If you’re keeping a scorecard of misery, the death toll ranged from hundreds of thousands to millions, and only ended when Mao succumbed to join the rest of history’s great monsters in evil’s hall of infamy. “Transformative” revolutions, which Antifa and Black Lives Matter are pursuing, don’t end very well.
He might think that he’s fulfilling the expectations of Christ. In reality, he’s helping to sustain a totalitarian movement which will have disastrous implications for all of us – black, white, et al.
“Black Lives Matter” isn’t limited to the literal meaning of the words any more than “Bolshevik” (the majority) is. It’s the title of a political front that can be loosely organized, sometimes more disciplined, but coalescing around a set of lies and half-truths. The demands around the unprovable “systemic racism”, the calls for reparations and defund/abolish the police, and the always fungible “white privilege” are a replay of the dangerous jargon on Krisallnacht (Germany, 1938), the Petrograd Soviet/Bolshevik Central Committee (1917), Mao’s Chinese Communist Party (1949), the Khmer Rouge (Cambodia, 1975-1979), etc.
Required reading for Cathy and any of our corporate leaders should be the “Black Book of Communism” by Stéphane Courtois, Nicolas Werth, Andrzej Paczkowski and several other European academics. The “rich” – or “privileged” in today’s jargon – don’t end up in a nice place.
An act of public humiliation at the feet of a Christian rapper is not what this moment requires. It’s steadfastness. This moment necessitates Christians to denounce an anti-Christian crusade, not engage in displays of ostentatious humiliation that do nothing but give it a credence that it doesn’t deserve.
Cathy, get up off your knees and both you and Lecrae condemn a movement who’ll bring nothing but misery to the “privileged” and “unprivileged”.
The whole scene was disgusting, far from righteous. Shame on you, Dan Cathy. You have given me another reason to steer clear of Chick-fil-A.
RogerG